Fire of 1913
Fire of 1913. The summer of 1913 Taylorsville experienced disaster. About dusk a fire broke out in Reynolds Blacksmith Shop, the flames spread toward the Square through I.W. BEAUCHAMP'S lumber yards to Main Street through Felix GREENWELL'S grocery store east on Main continuing through Allen's Hotel almost to the Bloomfield Road. The next morning an entirely unrelated fire broke out on the north side of Main Street when a bakery coal oil stove exploded. Flames spread west and burned a livery stable, the present location of Valley Theater, and east all the way to the Square. The old red brick Court House was completely burned. There was no fire department or water system and the only means of fire fighting was with buckets of water. All the records at the Court House were saved. The present Court House was built by I. W. BEAUCHAMP soon thereafter.
Later that year the municipal water system was installed which consisted of a pumping station, an open pond reservoir on the hill, and a network of pipe which reached only to the fire hydrant at the intersection.
Taken from Spencer County History by Mary Francis Brown
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